Career
He is currently Vice Chancellor of Academic and Student Affairs at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, having served as Interim Chancellor in 2014. Osborn taught public school for six years and was previously Dean of the College of Education at University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee and was on the faculties of Fordham University, Queens College of City University of New York and the University of Connecticut. As Chair of the Foreign Language Education program in the Neag School of Education, Osborn led his program to national recognition in teacher development.
As Dean, he led in the formation of the Center for Partnerhsips for Arts-Integrated Teaching (PAInT).
Osborn researches and publishes in the areas of foreign/world language education, interdisciplinary education, and critical pedagogy. He was a founding officer of the International Society for Language Studies and founding co-editor of Critical Inquiry in Language Studies: An International Journal currently published by Routledge.
He is Executive Director of the Florida Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. He is editor of several academic book series in education.
Osborn has been a featured expert speaker at The University of Texas/TEXFLEC (co-keynote speaker with Donaldo Macedo), the University of Wisconsin, the University of Georgia, Istanbul Technical University, Calvin College, Lee University, Baylor University/NACFLA,and Muhlenberg College.
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